This is pretty cool. The Cobra Special Forces Facebook page has revealed another image of the Cobra Trooper in action, and this time it’s a jungle scene showing one of the Troopers with machine gun at the ready.
Very interesting how they’re really pushing this “Cobra as Elite Military Force” angle. These images have all been very reminiscent of special ops, which is a neat twist. Of course, with the Facebook page being a Cobra page, this positive reflection does make some sense. Check out the Cobra Special Forces Facebook page, or hit up the mirrored image below.
Still showing no signs of slowing down, IDW has sent along the solicitations for August, 2012, including a slew of different G.I. Joe themed releases. All titles seem to be continuing to go strong, including some reprints and the long awaited Field Manual.
Click the read the rest of the story link below to check out the full details.
Quickly becoming one of my favorite things to check up on, the G.I. Joe: Special Ops online game has added two more familiar faces to the roster today with Lady Jaye and the Cobra Viper. Taking elements from various continuities, G.I. Joe: Special Ops seems like it’s trying to sample the best from everything. Lady Jaye wears a tactical vest and is an established hard ass, yet she totes around javelins, and wears her hair long sort of like Adrianne Palicki.
The Cobra Viper looks a lot like the Viper we all know and love, but with a distinctly Sideshow Collectibles twist. Thjey seem to be bringing a lot of very cool elements together. Now we just have to see how the game plays! Check out the SyFy G.I. Joe: Special Ops website, and also check out the mirrored images below.
With thanks to Machinima, we have a brand spanking new G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer! Boo YA!
We knew it was coming, we were ready for it…but could we really be totally prepared for the awesomeness it would bestow upon us? HISS Tanks rolling upon Washington, DC? Firefly, Cobra Commander, Roadblock, and Snake Eyes oozing awesomeness from every pore?
June 29th, I’m ready and waiting for you! Let’s do this.
So the recent news about IDW streamlining their G.I. Joe releases caused me to check these solicitations with a little trepidation, but turns out if they are scaling things back at all, it’s not happening until after July. The solicitations at least still show our normal compliment of G.I. Joe related titles.
To see the full lowdown click the Read The Rest of this Entry link below.
I was continuously impressed throughout the run of Cobra Command that Mike Costa was able to not only retain his own unique flavor of story telling throughout parts of this long-running story, but that he was also able to still mesh with what Chuck Dixon was doing in his titles as well. The result was a very seamless 9-part storyline that told a great tale and flowed effortlessly from one part to another…yet all at once, Costa also retained that slight edge that makes the Cobra title so great.
Well now that Cobra Command proper is in the rear view mirror, Mike Costa jumps right back into the Cobra title with both feet, and instantly thrusts us back into the aesthetic that we’ve grown to love with the title, and he absolutely nails it, delivering one of the best issues of a comic that I’ve read so far this year. Any fans of the Cobra series in its infancy will love this issue, and I think G.I. Joe fans in general should dig it as well.
Once again running about a week behind, but I just can’t help it with all of the IDW awesomeness that comic stores are getting hit with on a weekly basis! To this point I believe I have reviewed every installment of the Cobra Command series, and here is a helpful little rundown of all of those reviews:
I’ll be honest, it’s been a great ride, but obviously every story arc is only as good as the last memory of it. So how does Cobra Command shake out? Click the Read the Rest of the Story link below for the details.
I was pretty vocal last year about the first go-round with Infestation…I really wasn’t sure how IDW would make it work. Sure, infusing Zombies from an alternate universe into their more supernatural tales could potentially work, but how would you do that with G.I. Joe?
Turns out they did it pretty darn well, and I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed the issue. Now, by this point, Zombies are practically an embraced part of G.I. Joe lore, with the Zombie-Vipers being one of the more popular figures in recent 30th Anniversary assortments, so it would seem they could even tie in more easily than they did previously. IDW continues to branch out in their Infestation stories, though, and this time around seems to go even further over the deep end, jumping head first into Lovecraft and Cthulu territory.
Now, they managed to integrate Zombies pretty well last year…but demons? Supernatural entities out of fantasy movies and nightmares? How is that even possible in the G.I. Joe world?
Click the Read the Rest of this Entry link below…you just might be surprised.
Wednesday brings us the next installment in the Cobra Command storyline, with Cobra #10!
Cobra Ongoing #10
Mike Costa (w) • Alex Cal (a) • Dave Wilkins, Antonio Fuso (c)
COBRA COMMAND CONTINUES! As the new COBRA COMMANDER lashes out against an unprepared world, the rest of Cobra questions The Council’s decision… with deadly results. Meanwhile, the Joes search for a pattern in Cobra’s attacks, and a fan-favorite character returns—but will even that be enough to turn the tide of battle?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant covers:
Vertically inter-connected variant Tom Whalen cover!
Bullet points:
PART 6 of the G.I. JOE crossover, “COBRA COMMAND”!
A rolling nine-issue crossover between all three ongoing G.I. JOE titles, all with the same art team!
Ask your retailer about the special vertically inter-connected Tom Whalen variant covers on all three titles!
Cobra Command is currently surging towards its thrilling conclusion, so what’s next on the docket for G.I. Joe titles from IDW?
Some big stuff coming up in May… the Snake Eyes title becomes Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow, while Cobra and G.I. Joe continue to go head-to-head. Click the Read the Rest of the Story link below to get all the juicy details. Beware, there may be some minor spoilers throughout.
